Is mounting an drive as NTFS folder same kind of link as doing a directory junction with mklink /j linkname targetpath?
The reason im asking this is because we are having problems with NTFS mounted ...

I have really big file (TrueCrypt container) and I want to save it in some cloud, but it has constraint on file size, limiting to 2 Gb, also it has some tool to sync directory. The idea is to create ...

/cygdrive/d/ is a USB hard disk formatted as ext2 and mounted with ext2fsd.
When I try cp -al /cygdrive/d/X /cygdrive/d/Y where X is a file, I get the error in the title.
Things I've Tried/Verified
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I have been doing my own backups using rsync to a remote computer. However, due to the recommendation to have a full computer backup before upgrading to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, I am trying to undertake ...

Is there a way to move hard linked files from one hard drive to another while preserving hard links? If i try to just move 2 hard linked files I get a copy of original file instead of a hard link, is ...

This is Windows 7 x64 sp1 on a NTFS file system.
All hardlinks within C:\Windows\System32 folder disappear, and the Windows can't boot, because even the osloader, C:\Windows\System32\boot\Winload.exe ...

I've no problem in creating junctions and symbolic links through mklink, but can't create hard link using this command. It returns "Access denied", have tried on both Windows 7 and 8.1 on different ...

I'd like to synchronise some configuration files via a file hoster like Dropbox. I could create a hard link in the software's configuration folder and let it point to my cloud storage directory.
When ...

I am supporting a legacy Windows 2000 system that contains a number of hardlinks on a shared ntfs drive. We have run out of space on the shared drive and want to know the best way to archive some of ...

I know about full backups, incremental backups and decremental backups. However, I wondered why nobody (Windows Backup, TrueImage, Paragon) seems to have implemented the following backup algorithm.
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Is there a way to create hardlinks to create a duplicate of a folder on the SAME drive (NTFS formatted)?
I am looking to do something like this:
XCOPY E:\TEMP\SAMPLE1* E:\TEMP\SAMPLE2\ /s
but INSTEAD ...

I just created a hardlink in Windows 7 using mklink. When I use dir the output doesn't indicate that the new hardlink is a hardlink. Instead it looks exactly like the file it is pointing to.
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I have drive A: with 16G Space and plenty of files, due to the Hard-link feature in NTFS, the files together is 15G but only takes 2G of real space.
I like to copy all those files to drive B: which ...

To check a successfull migration I'm using find to count the number of files, directories, symbolic links and files with more than one hard link. As the directories to check contain a huge number of ...

I wanted to create hardlinks to files on Windows Server 2003 and I stumbled upon the superuser question hardlinks on ntfs with windows. I tried mklink as one of the answers suggested and found that ...

Here's the situation...
I develop under windows8 and I have some projects, every project, with a specific local git repository
For each local repository I have a remote bare repository on my VPS (I ...

I have few computers using Windows XP Pro. I want to synchronize/back a folder from one machine, to another one. This far, It's a simple problem, and I've used FreeFileSync for such operations, with ...

I need to find all hardlinked files on a given filesystem. E.g. get a list of files, each line contains linked pairs, or triplets, etc.
I understand more or less how to do it, one needs to create a ...

I would like to create a bat file to copy a directory, with everything in it (sub-directories, including hidden directories) - by making hard links.
I tested xcopy %source% %destination% /E /C /R /I ...